Thanks zoolkeeper. Yesterday PCNetSpec showed me how to back up ChromeOS too. I appreciate this information from both of you.

I'm thinking that my wife, Mrs. perknh, is a perfect candidate for a Chromebook. She doesn't like Windows, and she doesn't use Skype, and she does everything through the browser. And, when it comes to updating... well, Mrs. perknh has me do all of that too.

During this last summer we became a Windows-free household, and Peppermint and Android are the primary Linux systems we use here. (Actually, Mrs. perknh uses Android, not me. My job is only to fix her Android devices if something goes wrong them!) What I've noticed when putting Peppermint on our Toshiba laptop Windows computers is that the Wi-Fi doesn't come in as well as the Android devices do. So these are the primary reasons why I believe Mrs. perknh would be best served by owning and using a decent Chromebook.

But, all and all, Peppermint 5 work flawlessly for us. So good in fact, I hardly have ever any problems to report.

zoolkeeper, I am finding your reports on your thoughts and experiences with your Chromebook very interesting. Please keep them coming.

[T]here are a lot of people happily running Peppermint ICE which hasn't been receiving ANY updates for a while now .. and I personally would STILL consider that MUCH more secure than any version of Windows with up-to-date AV/Anti-malware

[T]here are a lot of people happily running Peppermint ICE which hasn't been receiving ANY updates for a while now .. and I personally would STILL consider that MUCH more secure than any version of Windows with up-to-date AV/Anti-malware

Despite being around since 2011 and despite being really cheap, the Chromebook has remained largely a niche product, popular in education settings and, to a smaller extent, business. But wait. Market researcher IDC now says laptops with the Chrome operating system eclipsed Apple’s Mac platform for the first time ever in the first quarter of this year. --Brooke Crothers

[T]here are a lot of people happily running Peppermint ICE which hasn't been receiving ANY updates for a while now .. and I personally would STILL consider that MUCH more secure than any version of Windows with up-to-date AV/Anti-malware

These Chromebooks are available in ARM and X86 boards. I think Peppermint 6 is not support ARM motherboards may be Peppermint 7. The above videos showing how to install Ubuntu their may be some steps are different for Peppermint Linux Which I don't know? I don't found any tutorial which tell how to install Peppermint Linux on Chromebooks. I think we should have one tutorial on this topic in this forum. Can somebody do this who knows enough on this concept.

Take a look at this link. lend27 achieved Superstar status from AndyInMokum in Pepprmint forum for writing a tutorial which shows us how to install Peppermint 6 to a Chromebook! It's an amazing tutorial

My wife, mrs.perknh, HAS a Acer Chromebook C720. In the evening, I can't separate her from the thing. The thing just goes and goes and goes nonstop. I've never seen anything get the use that Acer C720 has gotten. She told me a couple of nights ago that she always wants to have a handy little Chromebook, an Android smartphone, and a laptop computer --to run Peppermint Linux OS, of course!

I also have a friend here who goes back decades with computers, but since he gotten a Toshiba 2 Chromebook, he's pretty much turned his Windows computer into music server of sorts. He's nearly forgotten about his Windows computer since he got a Chromebook. He, too, has to have his Chromebook and his Android smartphone. But, unlike my wife who only uses Linux, I suspect my friend could live without his Windows computer now.

I usually go to McDonald's a couple times a week for morning coffee. There's a fellow there, who I see quite frequently, busy with a Chromebook. And, I have another friend, a senior citizen, he has his 15" Acer Chromebook. This is his second Chromebook: His first was an 11" Samsung Chromebook.

I was in Wal-Mart last year in the early Fall --at the beginning of school shopping I, along with mrs.perknh, saw a group of middle school/high school girls shopping. I thought to myself, this is the group to ask about Chromebooks. I asked, "Girls, do you know about Chromebooks?" Oh, yeah. Their heads were all nodding. When I told them that my wife had a Chromebook, I could see that my wife had suddenly become part of the in crowd. And, finally, our public schools have bought Chromebooks, as has my public library. Chromebooks are all over this place right now.

What a phenomenon! The world is going Chromebook crazy!!

perknh

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[T]here are a lot of people happily running Peppermint ICE which hasn't been receiving ANY updates for a while now .. and I personally would STILL consider that MUCH more secure than any version of Windows with up-to-date AV/Anti-malware

Seriously, I see no point and have never seen a point to Chromebooks. I mean, it's a computer where the entire OS literally runs from a web browser. So, I'd imagine it always has to be online. Why? What's the use? If you want something portable, look at Android. At least it can run stuff offline. Even putting Linux on a Chromebook is pointless to me because the drives are always so tiny. Just my two cents.

[T]here are a lot of people happily running Peppermint ICE which hasn't been receiving ANY updates for a while now .. and I personally would STILL consider that MUCH more secure than any version of Windows with up-to-date AV/Anti-malware

[T]here are a lot of people happily running Peppermint ICE which hasn't been receiving ANY updates for a while now .. and I personally would STILL consider that MUCH more secure than any version of Windows with up-to-date AV/Anti-malware

It's OK. If you have an "end of life" Chromebook no longer receiving security updates, you can always just disable the Internet and use it purely as an offline computer. Oh, that's right, you can't do that.

Well, there's always Linux, assuming it has a large enough SSD to take a Linux distro.

I'm a bit baffled by this .. if ChromeOS uses the Linux kernel to access the hardware, and the kernel isn't dropping hardware/driver support .. how are they able to (and why would they want to) disable software updates for specific hardware ?(security updates should be hardware independent, the kernel does all the translation between software and hardware )

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My laptop is from 2012 and cost me a bit more than a low end Chromebook from the time. (understandable, as it has more power) If you told me that I couldn't keep using it safely next year just because it's five years old, I'd be mad. Of course, it has Peppermint installed, so no worries there, but the point remains the same. Running a system with out of date security on the internet is a really bad idea.